Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Energy Flow in Ecosystems

An organism that can make its own food

• consumer

• decomposer

• producer

• herbivore

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An organism that obtains energy from feeding on another organism

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• omnivore

consumers that only eat plants

• herbivore

• omnivore

• carnivore

• decomposer

consumers that only eat animals

• herbivore

• omnivore

• carnivore

• decomposer

consumers that eat both plants and animals

• herbivore

• omnivore

• carnivore

• decomposer

a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms, example catfish and vultures

• omnivore

• herbivore

• scavenger

• decomposer

break down biotic wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem

• decomposers

• scavenger

• producer

• consumer

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A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy

• food web

• food chain

• consumer

• decomposer

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consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

• food web

• food chain

• consumer

• decomposer

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the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web

• energy pyramid

• food web

• food chain

• consumer

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